John,

I've seen crows dive bomb a river otter. As the otter swims along the
shoreline around Pine Lake, the crows go from tree to tree right above him, and
dive if he comes out of the water. This is not uncommon.

Linda Davey
on Pine Lake
Sammamish, WA

In a message dated 6/27/2007 1:38:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
johntubbs at comcast.net writes:

Hi All,

Yesterday evening when I got home from work I looked out the window to see
(and hear) four or five crows about 100 yards away dive bombing something.
Whatever the something was appeared to be at ground level based on the crows'
flight paths. Curious, I grabbed my binocs to see what could be on the ground
that they were after. Peregrine? Nope. Eagle? Nope. Hawk? Nope. Owl?
Nope.

What they were dive bombing was an adult coyote sauntering across an open
area...! I don't know if this is common behavior for crows, but it certainly
was a first for me. Hard to imagine what threat the coyote posed to them
unless there was a fledgling crow out of the nest too early and who wasn't able
to get airborne yet that they were protecting.

Anyone else ever witness something like this?

John Tubbs
_johntubbs at comcast.net_ (mailto:johntubbs at comcast.net)
_www.tubbsphoto.com_ (http://www.tubbsphoto.com/)



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